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Teenager Moves Video Icons Just By Imagination

10-11-2006 · ScienceDaily

Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.

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